Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind Core Instructor Text: A Complete Course for Young Writers, Aspiring Rhetoricians, and Anyone Else Who Needs to Understand how English Works

Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind Core Instructor Text: A Complete Course for Young Writers, Aspiring Rhetoricians, and Anyone Else Who Needs to Understand how English Works

<p><strong>Teach English grammar <em>thoroughly</em>, <em>effectively</em>, and <em>with confidence</em>―no matter what your background or experience! The central teaching text in a</strong> four-year grammar program that gives students a soup-to-nuts grasp of the English language, <em>Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind: Core Instructor Text </em>contains all teaching scripts and examples for a full course in English grammar and mechanics.</p><p><em>Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind</em> takes students from basic definitions (“A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea”) through advanced sentence structure and analysis―all the grammar skills needed to write and speak with eloquence and confidence.</p><p><br /> This innovative program combines the three essential elements of language learning: <strong>understanding and memorizing rules</strong> (prescriptive teaching), <strong>repeated exposure to examples of how those rules are used</strong> (descriptive instruction), and <strong>practice using those rules in exercises and in writing</strong> (practical experience).</p><p><br /> Each year, parents and teachers go through the dialogue, rules, and examples in the <em>Core Instructor Text</em>; students follow along in a <em>Workbook</em>. This repetition solidifies the concepts, definitions, and examples in the student’s mind.</p><p><br /> There are <strong>four</strong> Workbooks, one for each year. Each <em>Workbook</em> contains <strong>the same rules and examples―but four completely different sets of exercises and assignments</strong>, allowing students to develop a wide-ranging knowledge of how the rules and examples are put to use in writing.</p><p><br /> Each <em>Workbook</em> comes with its own <em>Key</em>, providing not only answers, but also explanations for the parent/instructor, and guidance as to when the answers might be ambiguous (as, in English, they often are).</p><p><br /> All of the rules covered, along with the repeated examples for each, are assembled for ongoing reference in the <em>Comprehensive Handbook of Rules</em>. This will become the student’s indispensable guide to writing through high school, into college and beyond.<br /><br /> The <em>Core Instructor Text</em> provides not only rules and examples, but <strong>scripted dialogue</strong> that makes it possible for any parent or teacher to use the program effectively, along with <strong>instructor notes</strong> that thoroughly explain ambiguities and difficulties.<br /><br /></p><ul><li><strong>Scripted lessons</strong> make it possible for any parent or teacher to use the program effectively.</li><li><strong>Step-by-step instruction</strong> takes students from the most basic concepts through advanced grammatical concepts such as modal and hortative verbs and multiple functions of noun clauses.</li><li><strong>Extensive diagramming exercises</strong> reinforce the rules and help technical and visual learners to understand and use the English language effectively. All diagrams are thoroughly explained to the instructor/parent.</li><li><strong>Text for examples and exercises</strong> are drawn from great works of literature, as well as from well-written nonfiction texts in science, mathematics, and the social sciences.</li><li><strong>Regular review</strong> is built into each year of work.</li><li><em><strong>Core Instructor Text </strong></em><strong>is designed to be used effectively with students</strong> from fifth grade through high school, regardless of background.</li><li>The program is <strong>easily customizable</strong> to each student’s strengths and weaknesses.<br /><br /></li></ul>